help with stock novak 14.4 esc

[rmasu]

Hi all,
I want to try and use my stock esc 14.4 from a 3905 emaxx that was sitting around. It's the Traxxas by Novak orange one with the purple heat sinks.
I have a 55t integy motor for my rock crawer but was wondering how i would wire this up? I don't need 2 batts for my crawler. Do I short out the non-BEC side like the BL 4.5 novak's and use all 4 motor wires, or do I just use two of the motor wires. Or split up my battery packs 3 and 3. or will the esc just not work below 14.4v

Thanks!
Ross

[mtfly2000]

I'm pretty sure it'll work on 7.2v. Instead of "short", the term you're looking for is "jumper" If you're using the old tamiya plugs, traxxas actually sells a jumper to do what you want to do. You can make your own too if you have a spare plug sitting around or are using deans plugs like you should. ;)

[rmasu]

hey mtfly,
you always seem to be able to answer my questions!
thanks
I was the one who fryed my HV maxx, its at novak now getting fixed.
I made the jumper for my emaxx by getting a female deans and soldering the exposed ends together then shrinkwrapping it. The only thing is the instructions from traxxas says to not use less than 14.4v. So... do you think I could use a 4s lipo on one side? I'm actually looking for someone who actually did it, I had enough smoking esc's for one year! OR!!! what about splicing the two input wires together? I am trying to avoid splitting up my lipos.
Thanks

Thanks

[mtfly2000]

You actually fried your HV-maxx? was there a lot of smoke or what? if not, it may have been your BEC that in it that smoked. If you disable your BEC (unplug red radio wire) and use a UBEC or seperate battery that goes straight to your radio you'll be better off.

[rmasu]

shoots, I didn't even try disabling the bec I even have a ubec lying around. , I was so upset I packed it up and sent it to novak the next day. I tried to run the two 4s1p in parallel but grabbed my series connector from an old heli project, didn't check the wiring and poof. There was a glowing thing in the esc case though so maybe I did fry it. So what do you think about the 14.4 esc? I'll jump one side and run a 4s1p to the other side, hook up one motor and leave the other motor leads taped off.
Thanks

[mtfly2000]

shoots, I didn't even try disabling the bec I even have a ubec lying around. , I was so upset I packed it up and sent it to novak the next day. I tried to run the two 4s1p in parallel but grabbed my series connector from an old heli project, didn't check the wiring and poof. There was a glowing thing in the esc case though so maybe I did fry it. So what do you think about the 14.4 esc? I'll jump one side and run a 4s1p to the other side, hook up one motor and leave the other motor leads taped off.
Thanks
yup, sounds about right. I would use the UBEC you have laying around and disable the stock BEC too.

[rmasu]

sounds like good advice, so sense smoking another esc.